Anfield, intensity, rotation – how Iraola is improving Liverpool

Liverpool fans are finding joy at Anfield again with a feel-good factor around the club before the visit of reigning champions Arsenal on Sunday. Liverpool have won nine and drawn three of their 13 games in all competitions under Andoni Iraola You have go back to 2012 for the last time Arsenal won a game at Anfield. In recent years – whenever this fixture comes around – it is well documented that a certain Mikel Arteta was playing for the Gunners on that day. Arteta is now a Premier League-winning manager and leading reigning champions who will arrive at Anfield on Sunday (16:30 GMT) hoping to end that streak. But they will come up against a Liverpool side that are starting to find some rhythm under Andoni Iraola and will have backing from a re-energised Anfield crowd.

Since tasting their only defeat of the season so far against Manchester City on 11 October, Liverpool have won their past five across all competitions. Not since the start of last season under Arne Slot have they had such a run. Facing Arsenal at the end of a week in which the Gunners were knocked out of the Carabao Cup by League Two Fleetwood, they will sense an opportunity to deliver a statement to the rest of the Premier League. Former Reds defender